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~~Boris Karpa

Tax Rates Fall, Tax Freedom Day Comes Earlier This Year:
Dozens of think tanks all over the world calculate the date of their own “Tax Freedom Day”. In Israel, the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies announced this year’s Tax Freedom Day: June 22nd. Corinne Sauer, the Director of the Institute, stated: “The [...]

Their complete report of the incident is available over here.
While it repeats  the points that we covered on this site in broad strokes already, this is an interesting detail:
Apple has long lacked a strong presence in Israel. That began to change in late 2008, after Nehemia Peres, the son of Israeli President Shimon [...]

Those of you who have read the previous post on this board – regarding the unfair ban on Apple’s iPad – and who have already bothered to call Dr. Yechiel Shabi at 050-6236001 – will have known that the official government excuse – this time – is that the iPad is supposedly only compliant with [...]

As the loyal readers of this site know, Israel is infamous for a variety of arbitrary bans and restrictions – restrictions on racing, poker, and balcony enclosures, sin taxes on amplifiers – but this one perhaps takes the cake. The Israeli government has, without warning, prohibited the iPad device from being brought into the country, [...]

Economists often bring up the concept of sin taxes – the concept of taxing a product more than other products, to discourage its use and to pay for the negative externalities of the product. In Israel, special taxes exist on cigarettes, alcohol, and automobiles – in the latter case, a 73% sales tax or more [...]

The Tel-Aviv University Students for Liberty has had its first meeting today.

The audience braved the horrible Tel-Aviv traffic jams.

It opened with a brief lecture by yours truly (Boris Karpa). In that lecture, I outlined the prospects of libertarian political thought in Israel. I argued that though the political tradition of the country was statist rather [...]

News media report that the Knesset Committee for Education, Culture and Sports had approved new sub-regulations for the Motor Sports Law – paving the way to finally legalize car racing in Israel. For those keeping score at home: the original law passed in 2005, and the process of working out regulations for it had taken [...]

Libertarianism is not very popular – neither in Israel nor in any other country in the world. While in some countries – for example, the United States of America – libertarianism takes an active role in the national debate, nowhere do libertarians constitute a political majority. On its face, this would imply that it is [...]

העיתון “ידיעות אחרונות” רוצה להשתמש במדינה ודרך החוק להכריח את העיתון “ישראל היום” לא לתת את העיתונים בחינם. כן, והם עושים את זה בלי להתבייש. פוגעים בשוק החופשי וכמובן בחירות בכלל. אף אחד לא מכריח את ”ידיעות אחרונות” לשים מחיר על העיתונים שלהם. יכולים להתחרות בלי לקבוע מחיר לעיתון ולתת יותר מקום לפרסומות, [...]